Show WITH THE WHEELMEN From present Indications this year there will be no Decoration day road race which has been an annual alfalr for the past five years or more There IB a great deal of work attached In working up such a race and but few can be found who wish to undertake the Job But the I racing men are anx ious that such a race be promoted and some of the riders are ruining on the road in order to be prepared for such an event should one bo promoted a The first road of race the season will 1 be the A D T Messenger boys ovint event next been Thursday Anolher addition i has I Williams made to the cnry list In Hobert who will Blurt from 10111 sciiirh With Eddie Smith and Rich ocoinfo Phis will he Edll Smiths last race here for Home time to come and he will endeavor to win by a3 many yards as possible AVhu the boys reach Cal ders ptirk where the race wIll be fin lahcd several track events will be AustralIan ranged for the riders There twill be ar an i I I pursuit race a one and two mile handicap and a halfmile open In which events good prizes will be givcn the whiners A letter has been received from O a cal fflW a challenge to ride against any twenty race horses In thc State or In the West for that matter for a distance of fifty r miles Julius proposes lo ride the entire dIstance paced by taudems and infernal ma chines One Jockey i6 to lie all the I horses and he has the Privilege of friirlrt to Wi O nfi r r < i changing oa often aa ho please H IH very hard for a cyclist to ride a mile under two minutes on the horse track but every running horse represented on the track can made a mile In ico or under Tho Jockey would lose lime In I malting the change and In this would l III lilt hope of I the cyclist In winning I I the contest The ratIn 1 anon twill close Thursday In las Angeles anal the bunch of riders there now will swk newer fields P A MoParland C L I Stevens If li Freeman and Hardy Downing will eo to Fountain Ferry Louisville where all the National Cir cult cha crs go for their pnlhiilnnrv training In iln I early season The Law sony John Chapman fibin TurvJli and Kpvnral other riders win no doubt try to locate here if lacing Is what it i i was last year Chapman may go East I with Jack Prince as the latter has is sued a cbnJlnnire to back Chapman against any man In the world Chapman Chap-man registers as a Salt Lake man and Is now known among the Eastern raging Oscar Ju ing men us the Mormon lius wishes to mako arrangements for a race to take place on the 1st of May Dewey day The fastest tandem team of the Pa cine coast will no doubt come to this oily before long The men arc Frank Pearno and Florentln Florentln a Frenchman The two riders hold all I the amateur records of the coat and I are even faster than any of the proves slonal tennis J W Sanor a noted trainer from Denver Is In the city and will probably proba-bly take charge of the Salt Palace training quarters Ho lists handled some of the best men In the Country and knows all the tricks In the artful I I trade The Opal Wheel club will meet I Wednesday night at the Ladles Literary Liter-ary clubhouse to elect the semiannual I olllccrs The club is 1 the most prosperous prosper-ous that has been hero for yi urs and j has a membership of eighty I Eddie Smith will leave here on the 1 i j ISth or 19th of this month en route for Paris He and his mother have engaged I i en-gaged berths on the St Louis of the American Steamship company which I I vessel under Capt SIgsby prued a j valuable aid to Uncle Sam during the I SpanishAmerican war 1 |